c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine." — Matthew Macfadyen
"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money." — Johnny Cash
"Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance." — Condoleezza Rice
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." — Alice Walker
"Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version." — Jason Ritter
"I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'" — Suze Orman
"As society advances the standard of poverty rises." — Theodore Parker
"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country." — Newt Gingrich
"What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world." — Emir Kusturica
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women." — Voltaire
"Nature has always had more force than education." — Voltaire
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good." — H. L. Mencken
"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience." — Corin Nemec
"I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there." — Martha Plimpton
"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things." — Danny DeVito
"Interior design is a business of trust." — Venus Williams
"You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about." — Nicole Kidman
"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what." — Elvis Presley
"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer." — Christopher Darden
"Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war." — Joseph A. Schumpeter
"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm." — Alan Perlis
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love." — Baruch Spinoza
"It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society." — William Hague
"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion." — John Paul Stevens
"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?" — Estelle Morris
"Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences." — Andre Maurois
"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally." — John Foster Dulles
"People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them." — Judith Jamison
"I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents." — Cat Stevens
"Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror." — Pamela Anderson
"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world." — Henry James Sumner Maine
"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom." — Bernard De Voto
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." — Johnny Cash
"After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes." — Bob Woodward
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman." — John Adams
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis
"The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake." — Jessica Lange
"I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them." — Nia Vardalos
"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success." — Thomas A. Edison
"I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach." — James McGreevey
"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome." — Andre Gide
"For me, writing is a love-hate relationship." — Larry Wall
"I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed." — Lena Dunham
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel." — Kenneth Koch
"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience." — Arnold Palmer
"I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money." — Paulo Coelho
"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium." — Albert Camus
"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace." — Anna Akhmatova
"The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death." — Jonathan Davis
"I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions." — Donald Cargill
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner." — Michael Symon
"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." — Harry Browne
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at." — Frank Moore Colby
"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful." — Rachel Zoe
"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there." — Sergio Aragones
"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune." — Quintilian
"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury." — Merton Miller
"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself." — James D'arcy
"Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss." — John Keats
"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food." — Kanye West
"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education." — Alonzo Mourning
"I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers." — Danica McKellar
"The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His." — Roger Ebert
"In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad." — Lance Bass
"One man's folly is another man's wife." — Helen Rowland
"Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family." — Victoria Justice
"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values." — Allen Tate
"A library implies an act of faith." — Victor Hugo
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead." — Karl Von Clausewitz
"The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey." — Kathryn Bigelow
"Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind." — Bob Ney
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things." — Elbert Hubbard
"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home." — Evelyn Glennie
"A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame." — Boris Yeltsin
"Any good music must be an innovation." — Les Baxter
"It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem." — Lee Child
"By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes." — Nate Silver
"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with." — Peter Marshall
"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women." — Kate Smith
"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like." — Charles Dance
"Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on." — Carrie Underwood
"In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents." — Denise Mina
"What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?" — Ian Mcewan
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades." — Jerry Costello
"I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not." — Jessica Simpson
"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home." — Emma Goldman
"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength." — Ovid
"Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous." — Lucius Accius
"I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email." — Garrett Hedlund
"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say." — Dolly Parton
"I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew." — Reggie Watts
"The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us." — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Strength lies not in defence but in attack." — Adolf Hitler
"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer." — James Tobin
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." — Arthur Conan Doyle
"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers." — Edgar R. Fiedler
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live." — Jane Addams
"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me." — Fiona Apple
"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part." — George Carey
"I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it." — LeBron James
"Experience is the teacher of all things." — Julius Caesar
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice." — Blaise Pascal
"I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much." — Ricky Williams
"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline." — Graham Greene
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true." — Paracelsus
"It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future." — Winona Ryder
"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse." — Thomas Fuller
"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace." — Michelle Obama
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms." — Angela Carter
"It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another." — Roger Moore
"Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." — George Bernard Shaw
"And our dreams are who we are." — Barbara Sher
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." — Wilma Rudolph
"I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon." — Tom Brady
"I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever." — Eminem
"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership." — Herman Cain
"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition." — John Ruskin
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." — Winston Churchill
"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs." — Marianne Faithfull
"A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better." — Robert Rodriguez
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." — Rabindranath Tagore
"I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger." — Rachel Maddow
"A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past." — Daisaku Ikeda
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions." — John W. Gardner
"Marriage is a great institution." — Elizabeth Taylor
"Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war." — Al McGuire
"I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image." — Sondre Lerche
"Life in abundance comes only through great love." — Elbert Hubbard
"Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal." — Conrad Black
"I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home." — Kristin Scott Thomas
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." — Leo Tolstoy
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." — George Bernard Shaw
"The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear." — Al Pacino
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?" — Maria Montessori
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can." — Ernest Hemingway
"The secret of my success is my hairspray." — Richard Gere
"You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them." — Daniel Keys Moran
"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy." — Francis Bacon
"We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility." — Newt Gingrich
"Applause waits on success." — Benjamin Franklin
"Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him." — Lucy Liu
"I'm not afraid of aging." — Shelley Duvall
"As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue." — Tom Colicchio
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential." — John Drinkwater
"'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi." — Jerry Orbach
"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments." — Andrew Jackson
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy." — John Maynard Keynes
"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback." — Bill Copeland
"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate." — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience." — Alice Walker
"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it." — Doug Coupland
"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death." — Stanislav Grof
"You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run." — Vin Diesel
"Society is at odds with itself." — Clint Eastwood
"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers." — Abdul Kalam
"There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear." — Frank Luntz
"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense." — Mary Wollstonecraft
"I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically." — Jeb Bush
"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace." — Elbert Hubbard
"Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women." — Will Smith
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house." — Jean Kerr
"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything." — Emma Thompson
"The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States." — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends." — Knute Rockne
"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world." — Morris Dees
"All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love." — Evelyn Underhill
"And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast." — Max Muller
"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology." — Dan Lipinski
"The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now." — Lana Turner
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." — Earl Nightingale
"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality." — Anish Kapoor
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." — Lou Holtz
"Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls." — Rashida Jones
"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit." — Avicenna
"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor." — Steve Case
"Integrity reveals beauty." — Thomas Leonard
"I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else." — Ellie Goulding
"What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief." — Paul Ryan
"There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much." — David Bowie
"If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems." — George Soros
"Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many." — Maggie Kuhn
"The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from." — Bryan Cranston
"What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike." — Serge Schmemann
"I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other." — Tori Amos
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." — Edward Kennedy
"I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place." — Prince William
"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources." — Bo Bennett
"When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity." — Robert Anton Wilson
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." — Charles V
"But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism." — Fiona Apple
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it." — Winston Churchill
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers." — May Sarton
"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us." — Samuel Butler
"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right." — Linda Evans
"Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules." — Will Hermes
"The precondition to freedom is security." — Rand Beers
"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect." — Jack Prelutsky
"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." — John Erskine
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." — Thomas Aquinas
"He that is jealous is not in love." — Saint Augustine
"If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger." — Brian Tracy
"The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane." — Dennis Prager
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." — Aleister Crowley
"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating." — Linda McCartney
"I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!" — Mila Kunis
"Whatever dreams I have wished have come true." — Annette Funicello
"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return." — Bertrand Russell
"Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep." — Sophia Bush
"You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican." — Carlos Fuentes
"I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well." — Lindsay Lohan
"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives." — Morris Raphael Cohen
"Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product." — Barry Diller
"People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got." — Daniel Radcliffe
"You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change." — Sharron Angle
"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come." — Madeleine L'Engle
"Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits." — Carter G. Woodson
"A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job." — Ted Turner
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it." — Robert Penn Warren
"The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself." — Charles Bronson
"Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?" — Marilyn Monroe
"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman." — Sol Wachtler
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is." — Iris Murdoch
"It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts." — Jason Reitman
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men." — Max Beerbohm
"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance." — Tim Murphy
"I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us." — Michael J. Fox
"I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away." — Jared Leto
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance." — Karl A. Menninger
"In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school." — Gillian Anderson
"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." — Milton Friedman
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?" — Edgar Allan Poe
"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice." — Thomas Malthus
"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest." — Voltaire
"The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other." — J. C. Watts
"I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene." — Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg." — Peter Storey
"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars." — Bruce Willis
"Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you." — Ron Wyden
"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry." — Georges Braque
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed." — Howard Nemerov
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight." — Rollo May
"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock." — Howard Stern
"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals." — Edward Thorndike
"Wisdom is learning what to overlook." — William James
"It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads." — Jon Porter
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody." — Herbert Bayard Swope
"And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy." — Octavia Butler
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art." — Robert Hughes
"I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show." — Kristin Cavallari
"I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out." — Reese Witherspoon
"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night." — Joyce Grenfell
"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up." — Ernest Hemingway
"I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make." — Kristen Wiig
"You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life." — Joni Mitchell
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination." — Wislawa Szymborska
"The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by." — David Beckham
"There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song." — Todd Phillips
"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live." — Judy Collins
"I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching." — Mary Elizabeth Winstead
"If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case." — Ang Lee
"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." — David Bailey
"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back." — Quentin Tarantino
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." — Samuel Richardson
"My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood." — Jim Caviezel
"During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground." — Fareed Zakaria
"I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question." — Daniel Inouye
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work." — Frederick Douglass
"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." — Maxine Waters
"I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing." — Allen West
"So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!" — Eddie Izzard
"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me." — Elayne Boosler
"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen." — Calvin Coolidge
"I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook." — Roger Goodell
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves." — Sivananda
"I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence." — Judy Collins
"What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves." — Paul Wellstone
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." — Benjamin Cardozo
"My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent." — Michael Sheen
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." — Zhuangzi
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars." — Anwar Sadat
"I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave." — Heather Matarazzo
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." — Harry Crews
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." — Bertrand Russell
"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues." — Michael Behe
"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day." — Barack Obama
"The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security." — John Garamendi
"There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago." — Allen Tate
"The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure." — Rick Perry
"The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction." — William Trevor
"I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes." — Nadia Giosia
"The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem." — T-Bone Burnett
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart." — Honore de Balzac
"Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly." — Andrew Shue
"It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research." — Roger Wicker
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long." — Joseph Heller
"Living well is the best revenge." — George Herbert
"I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with." — Ang Lee
"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people." — George Bernard Shaw
"Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together." — Stana Katic
"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable." — Bill Maher
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." — Fred Astaire
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." — Andy Warhol
"But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible." — Jose Marti
"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next." — William Ralph Inge
"Beware the hobby that eats." — Benjamin Franklin
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." — Plato
"Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed." — Ashley Tisdale